Match-safe



' UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE'.

FRANKLIN H. VAIT, OF MANKATO, MINNESOTA.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,190, dated November 27, 1883.

` Application filed March 5, 1883. (No model.)

Io "LEZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN H. WAITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mankato, inthe county of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match Safes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention renders the matehsafe airtight, and I attain the object by the mechanism illustrated in accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of the safe. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, showing the lid partly open. Fig. 3 is a plan of the top edge of the sate before it is attached thereto, as it appears Without the flange E. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section, also showing the construction ofthe top edge of the safe, and exhibits the of the safe, and so much of it is uncovered by the clamp A. Upon the uncovered part of B falls the lid D, which is made heavy, in order to press so hard on the india-rubber as to make the safe air-tight on the top. The door D cannot open to a perpendicular line before it hits the upper back of the safe, which projects inwardly, and therefore shuts by its oWn Weight. The fastening of A, B, andE on the outer edge is so tight as to exclude air from that edge of the safe. The iiange E is covered by the india-rubber B and by the clamp A, so as to be invisible.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States, is-' The combination of the flange E, surrounding the top of the safe, the rubber bed B, eX- tending around the top of the safe and resting on the flange E, the clamp A, by which the ange and rubber are held firmly together, and the lid provided with the extension D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Dated at the city of Mankato, Minnesota, February 26, 1883.

FRANKLIN H. 1WAITE.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE IAss, ALBERT SHIPPEL. 

